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Doctor Beeching was Chairman of the Railways and was instructed by the then Minister of Transport Ernie Marples who had shares in the company building the M1 motorway to shut all non profitable lines, they did not care about the social aspect, just money. The Labour Party at the time did not put up much of a fight against it and subsequent Labour Governments did nothing to stop bring the railways back under control because they could see all the money coming in from the franchises, the East Coast Main Line which is presently under Government control is making more profit than any other company so why are we not letting the existing franchises lapse and taking back control from the private sector all of whom are either French or German and our taxes are paying for other countries railway subsidies. Another case for Mr. Farage and his Party to look into.